Karle
Karle reached its high-water mark in 1995 at number 9,553, and has been recorded 150 times in all. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 2007. About 130 Karles are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 36.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Karle boys named Karle
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 150
- Estimated living today
- 130
- Median age today
- 36
- Peak year
- 1995
- Best rank
- 9,553rd
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1938
- Girls / boys
- 94 / 56
How old the living Karles are
born that year still alive today
Of the 150 babies given the name since 1938, about 130 are alive — 84 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1989 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Names of 1995
The most popular girls’ names the year Karle peaked:
Karle among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Karle | — | 5 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Karle against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.